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The New Brisbane Line?

During WW2, defeatists were prepared to sacrifice all of
Australia north of Brisbane to the advancing enemy.

Green extremists have established a New Brisbane Line whereby
Northern Australia is abandoned to weeds, ferals, trees,
kangaroos, government boffins and park rangers.

Every green policy seems designed to rid the north of all signs
of human activity.

Bob Brown’s dream to close every coal mine, gas producer and
carbon fuelled power station is well known – this should rid
central Queensland of all those pesky little towns like
Collinsville, Glenden, Blair Athol, Moranbah, Dysart, Saraji,
Blackwater and Moura and kill that unhealthy coal boom in Alpha,
Clermont, Emerald, Rolleston, Wandoan, Gladstone and Mackay.

Then the Kyoto scrub clearing bans, the carbon credit forests and
the live export barriers will help clear the outback of any hardy
graziers or foresters who remain.

Greens will then use ever expanding marine parks to sweep
fishermen from the Coral Sea. And the bans on any coastal
developments that fall within the fatuous Flannery forecasts of
fast rising seas will help clear the Gold, Sunshine, Capricorn
and Coral coasts of jobs and people.

The creeping paralysis of Wild Rivers disease should cure any
aborigines of development dreams in the Never-Never land.

The final straw will be the carbon tax that will hasten the
closure of metal refining and processing in Mount Isa, Townsville
and Gladstone, cement manufacture in Gladstone and oil refining
in Brisbane.

However, nature abhors a vacuum, so more energetic people will
soon occupy and use this empty land and its idle resources.

The new colonists should erect a huge green statue to their
benefactor, Bob Brown, with the citation in English, for old
time's sake.